HTC, Nokia reach settlement on patent lawsuits

Taiwan’s smartphone maker HTC today said it has signed a patent and technology collaboration agreement with Finnish phone giant Nokia to end all pending patent litigation between them. Under the deal, HTC will make payments to Nokia and the...

"Nokia has one of the most pre-eminent patent portfolios in the industry,"

HTC Corp (宏達電), the struggling Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, said yesterday that it would continue selling its HTC One flagship series phones in Germany, despite a German judge’s patent-infringement ruling in favor of its rival Nokia Oyj. Judge Andreas Mueller of the Regional Court in Munich announced on Friday that the court had granted Nokia an injunction against HTC’s...

Taiwan’s largest smartphone maker, HTC, will make payments to Finnish company Nokia Oyj to end a patent dispute and avoid being kept out of the U.S. market, the state-run Central News Agency said. HTC and Nokia reached an agreement to settle all pending litigation. The deal came ahead of an announcement expected Monday by the U.S. International Trade Commission on whether...

All Patent litigation between the companies dismissed Taipei, Taiwan, February 8, 2014 - Nokia and HTC have settled all pending patent litigation between them, and entered into a patent and technology collaboration agreement. HTC will make payments to Nokia and the collaboration will involve HTC's LTE patent portfolio, further strengthening Nokia's licensing offering. The...

All Patent litigation between the companies dismissed TAIPEI, Taiwan, Feb. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Nokia and HTC have settled all pending patent litigation between them, and entered into a patent and technology collaboration agreement. HTC will make payments to Nokia and the collaboration will involve HTC's LTE patent portfolio, further strengthening Nokia's licensing offering....

HTC Corp (宏達電) on Saturday praised a German court’s decision to stay a patent lawsuit filed by Nokia Oyj against the Taiwanese handset maker because of doubts over the validity of the patent. The District Court of Mannheim on Friday handed down an order to stay claims by Nokia that HTC had infringed on the German section of the EP0879538 patent, which was likely found invalid...

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has signed a patent and technology collaboration agreement with Finnish phone giant Nokia to end all pending patent litigation between them. Under the deal, HTC would make payments to Nokia and the collaboration would involve HTC's LTE patent portfolio to further strengthen Nokia's licensing offering, HTC said at the weekend. The companies would...

Nokia N1 First Look Nokia's First Pure Android Tab

published:18 Nov 2014

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Nokia N1 First Look Nokia's First Pure Android Tab

Nokia just announced Nokia N1 , the company’s
first Android tablet through brand-licensing
agreement with the OEM partner. It has
aluminium unibody build, has a 7.9-inch (2048 ×
1536 pixels) display a...

Nokia N1 Reveal Video

published:18 Nov 2014

Nokia N1 Reveal Video

Nokia N1 Reveal Video

Nokia just announced Nokia N1, the company’s first Android tablet through brand-licensing agreement with the OEM partner. It has aluminium unibody build, has a 7.9-inch (2048 × 1536 pixels) display at...

Nokia N1 Reveal Video

Nokia just announced Nokia N1, the company’s first Android tablet through brand-licensing agreement with the OEM partner. It has aluminium unibody build, has a 7.9-inch (2048 × 1536 pixels) display at 326 ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, similar to the Xiaomi Mi Pad, powered by a 64-bit Intel Atom Z3580 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Nokia Z Launcher on the top, but it is not clear if this would have Google Play. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. read more on http://nattypangolin.in/nokia-launches-android-tablet-nokia-n1-tablet.html

WTF-MICROSOFT buys NOKIA for $7.2B to defeat GOOGLE & APPLE [FULL]

Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft's Windows Phone software, Nokia collapsed into the arms of the U.S. software giant on Tuesday, agreeing to sell its main handset business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).
Nokia, once the world's dominant handset maker, has failed to close a yawning lead opened up by Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive market for smartphones and will now concentrate on its networking equipment unit, navigation business and technology patents.
Nokia's Canadian boss Stephen Elop, who ran Microsoft's business software division before jumping to Nokia in 2010, will return to the U.S. firm as head of its mobile devices business - a Trojan horse, according to disgruntled Finnish media.
He is being discussed as a possible replacement for Microsoft's retiring CEO Steve Ballmer, who is trying to remake the U.S. firm into a gadget and services company like Apple before he departs, though it has fallen short so far in its attempts to compete in mobile devices.
"It's very clear to me that rationally this is the right step going forward," Elop told reporters, though he added he also felt "a great deal of sadness" over the outcome.
"I feel sadness because inevitably we are changing Nokia and what it stands for," he said.
In three years under Elop, Nokia saw its market share collapse and its share price shrivel.
In 2011, after writing a memo that said Nokia lacked the in-house technology and needed to jump off a "burning platform", Elop made the controversial decision to use Microsoft's Windows Phone for smartphones, rather than Nokia's own software or Google's ubiquitous Android operating system.
Nokia, which had 40 percent of the handset market in 2007, now has just 15 percent, and only 3 percent in smartphones.
Shares in Nokia surged 39 percent to 4.10 euros on Tuesday. While up from their decade-low of 1.33 euros hit last year, they are still only a fraction of their 2000 peak of 65 euros.
After today's gains the whole company is worth about 15 billion euros, a far cry from its glory days when it peaked at over 200 billion euros.
Tuesday's deal includes an agreement to license Nokia's patent portfolio for 10 years. Without it, Nokia's devices and services business would have been worth about 3.7 billion euros, the companies said.
Microsoft shares in Frankfurt were down about 5 percent.
SOLD FOR "PEANUTS"
While some investors have credited Elop for bringing urgency to Nokia, which has stepped up its pace of product development in recent months and is due to announce a "phablet"-type large-screen handset this month, his legacy will be a bitter one for Finland. The company, which began life as a paper mill and has sold an eclectic range from television sets to rubber boots in its 148-year history, was a national champion in its heyday, accounting for 16 percent of all exports.
Hired by former chairman Jorma Ollila, Elop was the first foreigner to lead it.
For many Finns, the fact that a former Microsoft executive had come to Nokia, bet the firm's future on an alliance with Microsoft, laid off about 40,000 worldwide and then delivered it into Microsoft's hands, was a galling snub to national pride.
"Jorma Ollila brought a Trojan horse to Nokia," a column in widely read tabloid Ilta-Sanoma said.
"As a Finnish person, I cannot like this deal. It ends one chapter in this Nokia story," said Juha Varis, Danske Capital's senior portfolio manager, whose fund owns Nokia shares. "On the other hand, it was maybe the last opportunity to sell it."
Varis was one of many investors critical of Elop's decision to bet Nokia's future in smartphones on Microsoft's Windows Phone software, which was praised by tech reviewers but hasn't found the momentum to challenge the market leaders.
"So this is the outcome: the whole business for 5 billion euros. That's peanuts compared to its history," he said.
Alexander Stubb, Finland's Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, said on his Twitter account: "For a lot of us Finns, including myself, Nokia phones are part of what we grew up with. Many first reactions to the deal will be emotional."
Nokia said in a statement it expected that, apart from Elop, senior executives Jo Harlow, Juha Putkiranta, Timo Toikkanen, and Chris Weber would transfer to Microsoft when the deal is concluded, probably in the first quarter of 2014.

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Yahoo Tech News - Sprint, IPhone, Nokia

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